Bryan Danielson will be at All In 2025, regardless of his role on the show.
Danielson appeared at Monday’s AEW All In Texas ticket on-sale party. During the event, the ‘American Dragon’ addressed his in-ring status. He has not competed since losing the AEW World Championship to Jon Moxley at AEW WrestleDream.
Fans chanted for one more match at Danielson (along with one guy who yelled for 20 more, which popped Danielson and Tony Schiavone).
“75 more matches,” Danielson replied with a laugh.
Danielson then led the crowd in a countdown for tickets going on sale before addressing his in-ring status. Danielson isn’t sure he’ll wrestle again, but he knows he’ll be at All In.
“Now as for my participation at All In this year, I don’t know what that looks like. I don’t know if I’ll be able to wrestle at that point, I don’t know if I’ll be able to wrestle again, to be quite honest,” Bryan Danielson said. “But there’s one thing that I can tell you for certain — I will be here. There is nothing that you could do to make me miss All In at Globe Life Field.
“Like I said when I walked in, I got chills when I saw it,” Danielson added. “And when I remember All In last year at Wembley and then the first All In that broke so many records, I walked in there and I was like, ‘There is no way that I’m going to miss it.’ So whatever Tony Khan wants me to do, whether it’s — I could commentate with [Tony Schiavone], or even just helping backstage, I’m going to be there live to watch it because this is going to be incredible.”
Tony Khan has gone on record saying he has hope that Danielson will compete in AEW again.
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Bryan Danielson on not saying “retirement”
Bryan Danielson provided an update on his future during a recent episode of the Nikki & Brie Show. He said he was careful not to say retirement aside from a “career-threatening” match against Swerve Strickland.
“I was very cautious to not say ‘retirement,’ except for the match where if I lost (against Swerve), I would retire,” Danielson said. “After that, it was all, ‘the end of my full-time wrestling career.’ We don’t know what’s going to happen with my neck, but it honestly feels like I have a bobblehead.”
His wife, Brie, said Danielson still needs neck surgery. He responded by saying that wrestlers never actually retire, and he’s content in life without wrestling, but misses the excitement around the sport itself.
